Animal and bird trap



' W. NAWRACAJ AND W. JAROSZ.

ANIMAL AND BIRD TRAP.

APPLICATION F1LED FEB.19.1921.

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' ANIMAL AND BIRD TRAP.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. I9. 1921.

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yANIMAL AND BIRD TRAP.

Application led February 19, 1921.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WoJoIEoH NAWRACAJ, a citizen of U. S. A., residingat Hamtramck, county of Wayne, and State of Michigan, and I, WAWZENIECJARosz, a citizen of Poland, residin at Hamtramck, county of Wayne, andl(tate of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inAAnimal and Bird Traps, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in traps, and it is the principalobject of the invention to provide a combined `trap for birds and otheranimals such as rats and mice or similar quadrupeds.

A further object of the invention'isthe provision of a trapy of thiskind which is adapted to be operated by the animals to automaticallyclose the trap and cut off their retreat. l

With these and various other objects in view our invention has relationto certainv features of construction and operation, an example of whichis described in the following description and illustrated in theaccompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of a trapconstructed according to the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation thereof.

Fig. 3 isa vertical section on line 3-3 of Fig. l, and

Fig. 4 is a top plan view looking down along the line 4-4 of Fig. 2. l

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, wherein like letters ofreference designate similar parts in all the figures, 10 designates acage having a base 11 and a cover which is composed of two segmentalelements or members 12 and 13,secured at their lower outer ends by meansof the hinges 14 to the top rail of the cage. The outer walls of thesegmental elements form substantially a continuation of the cage, and tothe lower inner edges of these elements, links 15 and 16 are pivotallysecured, the lower ends of which are connected by a pin 16, forming thepivot point Vof the upper ends ofl links 17 and 18 secured with theirlower ends to the outer ends of a movable bottom plate 19, adapted to bemoved down Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 20, 1921.

Serial No. 446,407.

into the upper compartment 20 of the cage under the weight of a birdalighting on plate 19.

The ends of the lower compartment 21 are closed by the vertical slidingtrap doors 22 and 23 respectively, the door 23' of which is held in itsupper, open position by a bellcrank 'lever 24 pivoted on one of the cagebars and supporting with its outer arm 25, the lower bar of the trapdoor 23 while to the end of its inner arm 26, a cable 27 is attached',the branches 28 and 29 of which are secured to the ends of a step 30,transversely arranged within the lower compartment 21 and pivotallysecured with its lower edge to the bottom plate 11. 'This 'step isnormally held in inclined position by the cable 27.

The other sliding trap door 22 is adapted to be opened by raising it byhand, in order .to remove the animals trapped in the lower compartment,while a door 31 in the side wall of the upper compartment 2O is used forthe removal of the entrapped birds.

In operation, a bird alighting on plate 19 attracted by the bait placedupon the same, will depress the same and will automatically close thesegmental elements forming the cover by means of their `pivoted linkconnection on the upper compartment, as indicated by the dotted lines inFig. 2, entrapping the bird which then may be removed through the sidedoor 31. v

An animal of the rodent type lured by a bait behind the step 30, willdepress the same by its own weight and operate the bellcrank lever bymeans of the cables so that the trap door 23 losing its support 25, willdrop Vby its own weight entrapping the animal, which then may beremoved'through trap door 22. v

It is evident that the construction shown, illustrates only thepreferred form of our invention, and that changes may be made in thegeneral arrangement and in the construction of the minor detailswithoutdeviating from the spirit and scope of our invention, 'and we do nottherefore wish to limit ourselves tothe use of such forms as shown.

Having thus described our invention, We claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

In a'combined bird and quadruped animal 5 trap, a compartmented cage, abi-partite cover for said cage, amovable bottom plate for the uppercompartment, means connecting said bottom plate with the parts of saidlower compartment' for entrapping quadruped animals. Y

VIn testimony Whereof'we have allixed our signatures.

WoJoIEoH NAWRACAJ. WAWZMHEC JARosz.

